That sounds like a lovely ideal. I hope it happens! The world needs more places like that.

I don't know about the US, but in London there's a place that's a church on Sundays and does church stuff some evenings, and during weekdays is a coffee shop. It's a gorgeous place to hang out and drink coffee.

Basically the only time in the Bible that Jesus loses his cool is when he finds a bunch of people changing money and selling stuff in the temple. He literally flips tables and starts screaming at them. So having Starbucks and McDonalds in church is pretty clearly Not What Jesus Would Do.

I get both, kind of. I thought I was an introvert all through college because I lived in a dorm and people were always in my business, wanting things and being in my room, and I thought living alone would be amazing. Then I went to grad school in another country and lived by myself and realized that if I go more than…

I was cheering for her to just end him right there even though obviously that wouldn't make sense.

Seriously. I read the Victor Hugo novel, and while it's a lot creepier and more tragic overall, I maintain that Disney's Frollo is actually scarier. Hugo's Frollo has a brother that he looks after. Disney's is such a bundle of narcissism, repression, and god-fired judgment that he's not capable of looking after anyone…

Hahahaha, yep. I still love to sing that song even though it's SO CREEPY. I blame this movie for my interest in stories about horrifyingly creepy repressed Calvinists and judgment.

I was obsessed with this movie as a tiny child (I think it was at least 45% because I wanted my hair to be bright red like Ariel's, in retrospect, and also because I wanted to live in the ocean), but I dunno. It definitely does affect kids, and it's important to be critical of it, but I never gave two shits about…

I loved that song and was also TERRIFIED by it as a kid. That movie messed me up a bit. It's so scary. I mean, yeah, Ursula's a sea-witch, but Frollo is someone in power who's supposed to be doing good and instead is trying real hard to commit genocide, is super rapey, and emotionally abuses the child he adopted after…

This. 1000x this.

That's probably because of the focus on standardized testing in schools. I'm 23, and I notice this getting worse among younger kids. I'm lucky, because I was always just good at standardized tests but also genuinely interested in a lot of other things that I wouldn't let busywork get in the way of (and I had some…

Surprise is good, but public is bad. I think you can survive a "no, not now" to a private surprise proposal— in fact, I know my dad proposed several times to my mom before she agreed to get married, and they stayed together throughout— but the sheer amount of negative feelings an unwanted surprise public marriage…

It depends on the context. There've been times I was much more afraid of high school boys (a group of them surrounded me at night on a dark path and hissed comments) but I've also just straight up turned around and mocked them, although that was during the day. I think it might be that they tend to travel in packs…

Yeah, the most harassment I've ever gotten was when I lived in a small town in Massachusetts. Like way worse than when I'm in Chicago. In London I'd only get harassed if I went running after dark, but in MA it was like ALL THE TIME.

White men DO catcall, though. I would say that the majority of times I've been catcalled it was by white men. The ones who yelled out of cars where I went to college were mostly white; the ones who yelled and whistled at me in the street where I went to grad school were mostly white. In London it was more of a mix,…

Oh my god you're perfect.

I mean, for a lot of us, the first election we remember was Bush/Gore, which didn't exactly instill a lot of confidence in the voting process.

Seriously?! I'm in Chicago! Looking this up right now :)

The beauty of it is, we wouldn't even have to say we wanted them to close— just provide accurate information about who they are, what they do, and where else to go, right in front of their facility.

HOW THE HELL IS THIS SHIT NOT ILLEGAL? Right there with you on the blood boiling. Is there any way we could start a national group to protest outside these CPCs with signs detailing what they actually are and pointing women to the nearest actual health center?